text too small   

I created a year-long schedule that I printed on a 3' x 2' arch D-sized 
paper.  My client likes having the schedule on one page but he can't read the 
text as it's too small.

I'm going to enlarge the text in the task information cells, but will the 
name that is to the right of the bar on the Gantt chart also enlarge in a 
equivalent way?

Please respond right away as I have to turn this around by the morning.  
Thank you.

date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:27:00 -0700   author:   swell estimator

RE: text too small   

Hi swell,

The big problem is that in fitting a schedule to one page, the text and 
everything else will scale down to fit on the page.  So even though you make 
the text larger, it will still scale back down to fit on one page.

If you let the schedule go to 100%, how many pages down and across does that 
give you.  If it is more than 2 then you will find the text size 
significantly reduced when fitting it on one page.

Do you need to show all tasks, can you reduce the period over which the 
schedule is printed?  These will all help to increase the size of the 
schedule on the paper.

Hope this helps

Regards

DavidC

"swell estimator" wrote:

> I created a year-long schedule that I printed on a 3' x 2' arch D-sized 
> paper.  My client likes having the schedule on one page but he can't read the 
> text as it's too small.
> 
> I'm going to enlarge the text in the task information cells, but will the 
> name that is to the right of the bar on the Gantt chart also enlarge in a 
> equivalent way?
> 
> Please respond right away as I have to turn this around by the morning.  
> Thank you.

date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:38:01 -0700   author:   DavidC

Re: text too small   

In article ,
 swell estimator  wrote:

> I created a year-long schedule that I printed on a 3' x 2' arch D-sized 
> paper.  My client likes having the schedule on one page but he can't read the 
> text as it's too small.
> 
> I'm going to enlarge the text in the task information cells, but will the 
> name that is to the right of the bar on the Gantt chart also enlarge in a 
> equivalent way?
> 
> Please respond right away as I have to turn this around by the morning.  
> Thank you.

Swell,
To answer your question directly, no, the font size in the Name field 
can be set independent of the font size displayed in text next to Gantt 
Bars.

To set the font size of the Name field, select the whole column 
containing the Task Name. Then go to Format/Font and select the font 
style, size and color you want.

To set the font size of the Gantt Bar text, go to Format/Text Styles. 
Select the "Item to Change" to be the bar text location you are using. 
Then set the font style, size and color you want.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:22:22 -0700   author:   John

Re: text too small   

Your client can have it on one page or can have it readable, but not both.
Something has to give.

Trevor Rabey 0407213955 61 8 92727485 PERFECT PROJECT PLANNING 
www.perfectproject.com.au
"swell estimator"  wrote in 
message news:AE6A8178-3757-4634-86A7-38BDB9411C08@microsoft.com...
>I created a year-long schedule that I printed on a 3' x 2' arch D-sized
> paper.  My client likes having the schedule on one page but he can't read 
> the
> text as it's too small.
>
> I'm going to enlarge the text in the task information cells, but will the
> name that is to the right of the bar on the Gantt chart also enlarge in a
> equivalent way?
>
> Please respond right away as I have to turn this around by the morning.
> Thank you.

date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:28:00 +0800   author:   Trevor Rabey

Re: text too small   

Thank all of you for helping me on this issue of print size.  I was 
successful printing a year-long schedule to a single page, but I'm having 
problems doing it consistently.  I used the Properties feature in Adobe 
Acrobat Professional  to select a custom size of 3' x 2'.  I selected 12 pt. 
as the font size in Project and the schedule turned out exactly how I wanted 
it.

After this good experience I tried to do the same exact thing for another 
schedule that was actually shorter than the first by several months and the 
print-out was unreadable - the text size too small.  I used the same settings 
as the 1st schedule so I'm mystified.

Is there any way of telling in Adobe Acrobat if the print size is too small 
without  actually printing it?  A 3' x 2' schedule costs $6 retial to have it 
printed it out and that gets pricey when you're using trial and error.

Thank you in advance for your response to my question.  Chris the swell 
estimator

"John" wrote:

> In article ,
>  swell estimator  wrote:
> 
> > I created a year-long schedule that I printed on a 3' x 2' arch D-sized 
> > paper.  My client likes having the schedule on one page but he can't read the 
> > text as it's too small.
> > 
> > I'm going to enlarge the text in the task information cells, but will the 
> > name that is to the right of the bar on the Gantt chart also enlarge in a 
> > equivalent way?
> > 
> > Please respond right away as I have to turn this around by the morning.  
> > Thank you.
> 
> Swell,
> To answer your question directly, no, the font size in the Name field 
> can be set independent of the font size displayed in text next to Gantt 
> Bars.
> 
> To set the font size of the Name field, select the whole column 
> containing the Task Name. Then go to Format/Font and select the font 
> style, size and color you want.
> 
> To set the font size of the Gantt Bar text, go to Format/Text Styles. 
> Select the "Item to Change" to be the bar text location you are using. 
> Then set the font style, size and color you want.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> John
> Project MVP
>

date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:15:02 -0700   author:   swell estimator